Omaha Team System User Group
Greetings! It's that time again - time for the next meeting of the Omaha Team System User Group. This meeting will be held on Tuesday, May 26th, at 6:00pm (food will be provided 15 to 20 minutes prior to the start of the meeting). This meeting is going to be a little different from our regular format in that it is going to be co-sponsored by Deliveron Consulting Services. Deliveron Consulting Services will be providing the food as well as giving away the following:
**Xbox 360**
**Nebraska**** Furniture Mart Gift Card**
**Two TFS books**
Meeting Details **Presentation: Installing and Configuring Team Foundation Server 2008 **– This presentation provides an overview of TFS 2008 and demonstrates best practices, lessons learned, and “gotchas” installing and configuring TFS 2008. The overview explains the architecture and components of Team Foundation Server 2008 and recommended server configurations. The demonstrations will include using the Best Practice Analyzer, setting user permissions and using the TFS Admin Tool, and creating and configuring a team project from start to finish. The configuration process will include recommended settings, source control folder structure, and creating appropriate notification. The presentation will conclude with techniques and lessons learned for troubleshooting problems with installations. Speaker: Mike Douglas, Deliveron Consulting Services Mike Douglas is a Solution Consultant at Deliveron Consulting Services where he provides end-to-end solutions and TFS installation, configuration, and custom development for clients. He has over 11 years experience building enterprise level applications on a variety of .NET technologies including WCF, Web Services, ASP.NET, Disconnected Smart Clients and Data Synchronization, BizTalk, and Team Foundation Server. Mike enjoys trying to keep up with the constant change and evolution of .NET. Mike is an experienced presenter having spoken at several Omaha .NET User Group meetings on CSLA.NET, Subsonic, and TFS. He also spoke at the 2008 ESRI International User Conference on a GIS integration project he helped lead. Mike actively maintains the open source project, Team Deploy, on CodePlex for deploying MSIs using Team Foundation Server. Mike also enjoys sharing his experiences in Code Generation, CSLA.NET, and TFS on his blog at www.CodeSmartNotHard.com. NOTE: The meeting will start at 6:00pm - the food will arrive about 15 to 20 minutes before the presentation starts. So arrive a little early to enjoy some food and mingling. Call for Topics and Speakers As a community-based user group, we encourage involvement from our members (whether it's presenting on a topic, providing topic suggestions, or supporting the group by attending the sessions). If you have a topic that you would like to present during a future Omaha Team System User Group meeting, please let me know. We are always in need of speakers and topics. Please RSVP to Jeff Bramwell if you plan on attending or have any questions.